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Monday, February 20

I've probably been way out of the loop here, but I just discovered 90-year-old Iris Apfel through this lovely article and I am in love with her. Look how fabulous she is! At ninety! Beauty and personal style truly have no age limit. Dear Iris, I think you are my dream date. Please let me take you to lunch?

I lost much respect for her after reading an interview she did making fun of ugly and fat people. Being ugly on the inside is much worse than being physically ugly or fat. I would never want to meet this lady.

"'It seems that the fatter and uglier people are, the fewer clothes they wear. The shorts and flip-flops and tight jeans on butts that go from here to Poughkeepsie. I always say they should put people in jail for wearing clothes like that. Especially stretch jeans over [US] size 10 - they should be outlawed. Ten years ago people were starting to look like slobs in New York, now it's an epidemic." Not that she would ever intervene on a bad case of misjudged style. 'Oh, now that would be horrible. It's a free country - if you want to look like a freak, that's your problem.'"

Ever since I saw this blog post at Sea of Shoes comparing Iris's jewelry line at HSN with a practically identical, earlier piece from another jeweler, I lost respect for her. Check out the comparison images, they are almost exactly the same. http://seaofshoes.typepad.com/sea_of_shoes/2011/05/dissapointed.html

love ladies who don't let age determine their quality of life! I know a lady in her 90s who acts about 65! You would never know! Def something to look up to and realize you should never stop living life regardless of age!